【augury】 - A-level备考词汇

augury

UK:  ['ɔːɡjʊri]

US:  ['ɔɡjəri]

复数：auguries  

n.

1.占卜,占卜仪式

2.征兆,预兆

3.前兆

1 . Divination: The art or act of foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency.
占卜，预言：预言将来要发生的事件或显示不为人所知的秘密的法术或活动，通过预兆或所谓超自然因素的方式实现。

2 . The program of the First Community Village in Columbus, Ohio, and other similar centers may be a happy augury of things to come.
哥伦比亚俄亥俄第一社区村庄项目以及其它类似的中心，也许是一个可喜的征兆，预示着新事物的到来。

3 . Augury, the ancients connected almost all activities with it, asked the Heaven, the Earth and the future, forefathers were praying. . .
占卜，古人几乎所有的活动都与它连在一起，问天问地问将来，先人们在祈祷着……

4 . This is not a happy augury for the interval between these elections and the next.
在这些选举的间隔中这不是一个快乐的征兆。

5 . It is also perhaps a favourable augury for the next chapter in the province's history.
它或许也预示着北爱下一章的历史会是平顺的。